In his novel Ibrāhīm al-kātib (Ibrāhīm the Writer, 1931) the Egyptian poet, narrator, and humorist Ibrāhīm al-Māzinī borrowed several passages from his own translation—via English—of the Russian novel Sanin, by Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev, which he had published in 1922 under the title Sanīn aw Ibn al-ṭabī‘ah (Sanīn, or The Son of Nature). In this article, I analyze several personal authorial accounts, including the introduction to the first edition of the novel Ibrāhīm al-kātib (1931), in which the author develops the idea of creative writing and translation as a mechanical process of filling in the gaps of a “lost original.” Alongside literary allegations raised by critics against al-Māzinī soon after the publication of Ibrāhīm al-kātib, I recontextualize this issue of self-borrowing in the light of two parallel processes: the changing politics of intertextual practices that took place in Egypt during the first quarter of the twentieth century; and the rise of concepts as “Egyptianness” and “aṣālah” (cultural authenticity), key ideas to a national canon. Both Sanīn aw Ibn al-ṭabī‘ah and the (partially) re-written Ibrāhīm al-kātib, are the outcome of a process of adaptation, in which translation, intertextuality, literary borrowing and manipulation of the text constitute a common working practice and are not isolated incidents in the author/translator’s career.

在他的小说易卜拉欣kātib（易卜拉欣的作家，1931年），埃及诗人，解说员和幽默作家易卜拉欣MAZINI通过翻译英语的俄罗斯小说借用了他自己的几个段落山阴，米哈伊尔罗维奇Artsybashev，这是他该书于1922年出版，书名是《Sanīnaw Ibnal-ṭabī'ah（Sanīn，或自然之子）。在本文中，我分析了一些个人著作，包括小说《Ibrāhīmal-kātib（1931）》的第一版的介绍，其中作者发展了创意写作和翻译的观念，将其作为填补空白的机械过程。 “丢失的原件”。伴随着批评家对《马齐尼》发表的文学指称，我从两个平行的过程来重新审视自我借贷的问题：二十世纪第一季度在埃及发生的不断变化的互文习俗的政治；以及“埃及性”和“ aṣālah ”（文化真实性）等概念的兴起，这是国家经典的主要思想。既山阴AW伊本ṭabī'ah和（部分地）重新编写易卜拉欣kātib，是适应的过程的结果，其中，翻译，互文，文学借款和文本的操作构成了一个共同的工作实践和不是作者/翻译者职业生涯中孤立的事件。